William S. Corbin, D. O.
Having long since passed the experimental stage, osteopathy, which
rests upon the theory that most of the diseases and ailments of
mankind are traceable to some subluxation of some part of the
skeleton, or to pressure, obstructing some of the vital fluids and
forces of the body, has become a sane and widely recognized factor in
the lessening of human suffering. Thorough training in his profession
and eighteen years of practice have made William S. Corbin, D. O.,
one of the leading practitioners of osteopathy in Oklahoma, and as he
is the only regularly practicing osteopath at Chickasha he enjoys a
representative and lucrative practice. He is also part and parcel of
the commercial and industrial life of the city, being a member of the
Board of Directors of the Oklahoma National Bank of the Chickasha Ice
and Cold Storage Company, and his influence has always been exerted
in behalf of the development of the
social, educational and commercial life of the community.

Doctor Corbin was
born in Adair County, Missouri, May 23, 1874, and is a son of Newton
and Mary Ellen (Holloway) Corbin, who now live at Kirksville,
Missouri, aged respectively seventy and sixty-six years. The father,
a native of Virginia, was a pioneer settler of Adair County, where he
passed many years in agricultural pursuits up to the time of his
retirement. The mother’s family has produced a number of professional
men, among them her brother, Judge William Lawson Holloway, who was
recently re-elected for a third term of seven years, as a member of
the Supreme Court of Montana. There were nine living children in the
family of Newton and Mary Ellen Corbin, namely: Dr. William S., of
this notice; Dr. M. E., a graduate of the American School of
Osteopathy and of a medical college in California, and now engaged in
a successful practice in Spokane, Washington;
Dr. P. T., a graduate of the American School of Osteopathy, and now
successfully engaged in practice at Anadarko, Oklahoma; Orel B., who
is engaged in farming in Montana; Mrs. Eva Elmore, who is a widow and
lives on a farm in the vicinity of Gibbs, Missouri; Mrs. O. D.
Shipman, the wife of a farmer at Brashear, Missouri; Mrs. Clyde
Payne, the wife of an agriculturist at Brashear, Missouri; Mrs. W. W.
Martin, who is the wife of a practicing physician of Kirksville,
Missouri; and Miss Beatrice, who resides with her parents and is a
teacher in the public schools of Adair County, Missouri.

Doctor Corbin
received his graded and high school education in Missouri and then
entered the American School of Osteopathy, located at Kirksville,
Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1898. At that time he was
about $1,000 in debt, but some idea of his subsequent success may be
gained from the fact that he was soon cleared of his indebtedness and
was also able to furnish the money for the professional education of
several of his brothers and sisters. Shortly after leaving school he
began the practice of his chosen profession in Mills County, Iowa,
and when he left there, seven years later, had what was said to be
the largest practice of any osteopath in that part of the state. In
1906 he completed a post-graduate course at the American School of
Osteopathy, and in that same year located at Chickasha, where he has
continued to make his home and his field of labor. He is a member of
the American Osteopathic Association, of the Oklahoma Osteopathic
Association, of which he is a past president and at present a
trustee, and of the Southwestern Osteopathic Association. His office,
located at No. 312 First National Bank Building, is unexcelled in
equipment, including the most practical apparatus thus far
discovered. He has continued to be a close and painstaking student,
whose tendency is toward the best possible acquirement in his chosen
calling. His fraternal connections include membership in the Masonic
Blue Lodge at Chickasha.

Doctor Corbin was
married in 1900, at Clarence, Missouri, to Miss Mary Florence
Elliott, and they have three children: Willie Faye, aged thirteen
years; Damon Elliott, who is ten years old; and Margaret Jewell, the
baby, born in 1915. Doctor and Mrs. Corbin and daughter are members
of the Christian Church.